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Originally Posted by ThirdOfFive
With all due respect, weapons "for home defense, hunting, and legitimate shooting of targets." were a given at the time our nation came into being. A gun was a survival tool as much as hoes, spades, and axes were survival tools. It would have made as much (or as little) sense for the founders to amend the Constitution so that the right to own an ax was enshrined as a constitutional right.
Every right in the Bill of Rights is there to protect the people from government overreach. It is sophism on steroids to try to argue that the Second Amendment is any different.
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And yet, that is EXACTLY what was intended by the Second Amendment. At the time there was no standing army. So there was no army gear. No army uniforms, no army weapons, no army vehicles or stables for mounted soldiers. People joined to defend their country using their own weapons. 2A guaranteed they had the right to do so.